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(And Why I Build Artist's Websites in Wix and use SquareUp's Online Store for E-commerce) What would you do if this shows up in the dashboard of your website's building area? Warning: You're currently using deprecated PHP based events tracking which we will be...

There is so much riding on a good display these days compared to the days BCP (Before Cell Phones) affected our ability to concentrate on much of anything. With the average person checking their cell phones 160 times a day (you read that correctly), people...

I wrote a blog about Patreon for Artsy Shark that was published last week. I don't usually follow my guest blogs with one here on the same subject unless I think it's a super good subject. This definitely qualifies. Patreon is still a very new world for...

I have a big mess on my hands as I write this. Some of you will be getting a postcard - hundreds actually with special news. For those of you reading this who purchased my "E's of Selling Art System - Guidebook, Worksheets, and Flashcards" it naturally means I had...

With a hurricane just hours away from my front door, I was reminded of how important our to-do lists are and how important our connections are. I explore an amazing case study of an artist who “gets it” and is finding loving homes for her art. She shows us all a thing or two about authentic marketing strategies.

What does the future hold for online marketing in a world-wide trend that appears to be moving to minimized our time online? In this article, I will challenge you to think outside the box, the phone, the tablet, the watch, and the laptops in your world. What’s coming, to an app near you, may change everyone’s relationship to our current technology.

While the business schools universally teach their graduates to create strong value propositions for their businesses and their products, artists often ignore the concept. Some don’t know what a value proposition is and don’t know it’s just as essential to their success as with any business. This article explores a checklist of missed opportunities and offers solutions for artists who need to fill the value gap.

Do you use Instagram? If so, you might already know all about this latest news. It’s got my marketing mind mulling and I am sure you will see the fantastic potential for some seriously super selling opportunities, too!

Are you paying attention? Are you digging into the behind-the-scenes work that goes into advertising? This post invites you to become hyper-aware of what advertisers are up to and how you can gain from their multi-million dollar budgets. And there is a very insightful to-do list and a very special offer, too. It’s a limited-time offer, so go check it out right now!

Want more sales? Want a more effective online strategy? Drop the beginning – the origin stories. They don’t care about you nearly as much as you imagine. Let it go. Be less self-aware. It turns out that the easiest way to avoid worrying about what they think of you is to simply walk people directly to the cliff and hang out on the edge with them. Get right into the middle, the thick of it, as soon as possible.

What does it take to create objects of art that Frasier can’t resist? What do you need to do with your artful objects to get to an undeniable level of perceived and nearly incomparable value to anyone who sees your work for the first time? Let’s ask some tough questions. Let’s get to some real answers.